Display card and insert for boxes



Aug. 7, 1923.

D. LEVIIGTON DISPLAY CARD AND INSERT FOR BOXES Filed July 14 1922INVENTOR D wag, fimgrm 3 %J&

A TTORNEY Patented Aug. 7, T1923.

DAVID LEVIGTON, OF NEW YORK, 1'1. Y.

DISPLAY CARD AND INSERT FOR BOXES.

Application flied July 14, 1922. Serial 110,574,967.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID LnvrcroN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Display Card andInsert for Boxes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactspecification.

This invention relates more particularly to a class of devices adaptedto be used in conjunction with boxes.

My invention has for its object primarily to provide a card and insertdesigned to be removably applied interiorly oi a box or like containerfor partitioning the body of the box into compartments so that goods ofdifferent colors or articles of various kinds may be kept and displayedfor sale with out liability of the articles in their respectivecompartments being accidentally mingled with the articles oi the othercompartments, and which is also of a form including a flap memberadapted to permit advertising matter or goods to be displayed thereon,the invention contemplating dispensing with the requirement of providingseparate display cards and fastening with-,

in the box separate partition members as is incident to present methods.The inven tion consists essentially of a body with a bottom memberhaving upwardly protruding spaced partition members so that when thebodyis removably inserted in the body of a box or other container itsinterior will be divided into separate compartments, and extending fromthe bottom member is a flap adapted to be foldably swung from upstandingposition inwardly and outwardly of the box toward and from thepartitions, all of which are folded from a blank cut from a single sheetof material.

A. further object of the invention is to provide a display card andinsert for boxes of a simple and efiicient form which may be made ofappropriate material in any size and shape.

With these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinaftermore fully described with reference to the accompanying drawing forminga part of this specification in which similar characters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all the views, and will then be pointedout in the claim at the end of the description.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a plan of the blank for making one form ofdisplay caigld and insert embodying my invention, an

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary view, partly broken away, showing a perspectiveof the device applied to a box.

The device or display card and insert has a body portion 10' and a flapmember 11 adapted to be toldably swung to and from body portion 10. Theparts of the device may be of any appropriate size and shape, though thebody portion of the device illustrated is substantially rectangular toallow of being removably inserted in the body, as

A, of a box 13 or other container for holding merchandise and otherarticles, and the box may be provided with a lid C.

The body portion 10 and the flap member 11 of the device are preferablyformed from a blank, as 12, which is cut, scored and folded from asingle sheet of card board or other appropriate foldable material. Thebody portion 10 may include two flange members or side walls 13, 14c anda bottom or base member 14 which are provided by scoring, as at 15, theblank lengthwise in spaced proximity to its free side edge, and byscoring the blank, as 16, at the insection of the body portion 10 withthe flap member 11, as well as scoring the blank lengthwise, as at 17,lengthwise in spaced proximity to scoring 16. When the blank is foldedon the scorings 15 and 17 accord ingly the flange members or side walls13 and 14- will be disposed rightangularly upward from the bottom member1%, and by making these parts of the body portion of proper sizes theywill closely fit removably in the body A of the box B when insertedtherein, as shown in Fig. 2, so that the bottom member 14 will rest uponthe bottom of the body of the box, while the flange members 13, 14 aredisposed against the side walls of the body of the box.

The device is employed. for providing sep-. arate compartments in thebox by the body portion 10 or the device being divided intocompartments, as 18, 19, 20, 21 through the provision of partitionmembers, as 22, 23, 2 These partition members are formed by slittingspaced parts of the bottom 1d of the body portion 10 crosswise, as at25, 26, 27, and each slit is somewhat the shape of an extended U of alength so that the ends of all the slits terminate at the scorings 15upstanding position toward and from the and 17 of the blank 12. The armsof the U-shaped slits are of lengths corresponding approximately to thewidths of the flange members 13 and let of the body portion 10, and theblank is transversely scored, as at 28, 29, 30, at the free ends of thearms of the U-shaped slits. By folding on the scoring 28, 29, 30 theportions of the bottom or base member 14; of the body portion 10 betweenthe up-shaped slits in upwardly direction similar to the flange members13 and 14 the partition members22, 23, 24 will be formed to provide thecompartments 18, 19, 20, 21' for holding merchandise of different colorsor articles of various kinds so that the articles of one compartmentwill not accidentally become mixed with the articles of the .othercompartments.

flexing the blank 12 at its scoring 16 the flap member 11 may befoldably swung from upstanding position above the body portion 10 towardand from the partition members 22, 23, 24L to allow the lid C of the,bodyA of the boxhto be closed, and this flap member may be cutin afanciful shape if desired toserve as a card for displaying thereonadvertising matter, as at 31, or this flap member may also be used todisplay articles by being detachably mounted thereon. a

In the foregoing description, I have embodied the preferred form of myinvention,

a single blank, comprising a substantially rectangular body parthavingits side edge portions flexed lengthwise to provide upstanding sidewalls for removably fitting the interior of a box and the body parthaving in its central portion betweenthe side walls spaced substantiallyU-shaped slits'with-"the portions of the body part within the slitsbeing bent upwardly in spaced parallel relation providing partitionmembers, and a display fiap extending from one of the side walls forbeing foldably disposed toward and from the partition members.

This specification signed and witnessed this 13th day of July A. D.1922.

DAVID LEVIGTON.

Witnesses D. MAGUIRE,

J. FREDERICK CRYER.

